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OBITUAKIES 



John IiOBEUT Steeatham Hunteu-Selkirk, wlio died on Maicli 23, 

 in the sixty-third year of his age, at his residence, Daleville House, 

 Braidwood, near Carhike, Lanarkshire, was a well-known antiquary 

 and geologist. From liis rich collections he had made large donations 

 to the Museums of Kilmarnock and Airdrie, and he also bequeathed 

 some to different Institutions. For many years he liad been a meml.)er 

 of the lioyal Physical Society of Edinburgh, and of the Geological 

 Societies of Edinburgh and Glasgow. 



Franz Fiala, Curator of the pre-historic and anthropological depart- 

 ment of the National Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina, died at Sarajevo 

 on January 28, 1898, aged 30 years. He had published much on the 

 flora of those countries and had also made numerous studies in their 

 archaeology, especially on the pre-historic tumuli of Glasinatz in 

 connection with Dr C. Truhelka. 



George Christopher Dennis, for many years President of the 

 York and District Field Naturalists' Society, died suddenly of 

 apoplexy at York on December 22, 1897. 



The deaths are also announced of: — Jule.s Migneaux, a well-known natural history 

 draughtsman, at Billancourt, aged 65 ; P. B. L. Vehlo'I', the botanist, at Verrieres-les- 

 Brusson ; E. J. S. Linnaks.son, the botanist, a tutor in Skofde, Sweden ; Ramon Lista, 

 the well-known Argentine naturalist and explorer, whose death occurred towards the 

 end of last year in the forest near Mira Flores in the Gran Chaco ; Dr A. Zimmetek, 

 Professor of Botany at Innsbruck, aged 49 ; A. J. Horace Pelletiek, at Madon, France, 

 in 1897, a lawyer who worked on noxious insects ; Josi^ D'Anciiieta, who had made 

 zoological collections and observations in the African possessions of Portugal, at Gaconda 

 in Angola, on September 14, aged 66 ; Emmanuel Martin, lepidopterist, at Creil, 

 France, in 1897 ; J. Hoyes Panton, Professor of Natural History at the Ontario School 

 of Agriculture and a writer on fossil mammals, on March 2 ; at New York on November 

 21, aged 54, General Albert Ordway, who had written on the Crustacea, especially the 

 genus Callincdcs ; the metallurgist. Prof. Knud Styffe, aged 74, for twenty-five years 

 director of the Stockholm Technical College ; Dr K. B. Jacob Forssell, the lichen- 

 ologist, at Karlstad, Sweden, on February 11 ; Prof. Kirk, author of the " Forest 

 Flora of New Zealand," and of other monographs upon the trees of those islands ; 

 Alphonse Briart, the well-known Belgian geologist, on March 15, aged 73. 



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